Libbie Hyman (1888 - 1969)

Libbie Henrietta Hyman, a U.S. zoologist, wrote the widely used A Laboratory Manual for Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy in 1922 (revised in 1942).

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At the request of the University of Chicago Press, Hyman wrote A Laboratory Manual for Elementary Zoology (1919), which promptly became widely used, to her astonishment. She followed this, again at the publisher's request, with A Laboratory Manual for Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy (1922), which also had great success.

In 1931, Hyman concluded that she could live on the royalties of her published books, and resigned her position at Chicago. She toured western Europe for fifteen months and then returned to begin writing a treatise on the invertebrates. Settling in New York City in order to use the library of the American Museum of Natural History, she became, in December 1936, an unpaid research associate of the museum, which provided her with an office for the rest of her life. She also spent several summers studying specimens and drawing illustrations at Bermuda Biological Laboratory, Marine Biological Laboratory, Mt. Desert Island Biological Laboratory, and Puget Sound Biological Station.

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